Computer Information Systems (CIS)

We offer associate and baccalaureate programs that introduce you to in-demand computing concepts while allowing you to develop the skills and reasoning required to succeed in the profession. Our program is designed to start you on the path to earn professional certifications. Options, minors, and certificates are also available.

What sets Akron apart: Our courses are taught in computer labs, so you can learn and practice skills.

The CIS program offers high level training for computer programmers and microcomputer application specialists. Schedules offer a range of day, evening and weekend classes.

Graduates of the AAB/BS CIS program are expected to qualify for such positions as programmer trainees, programmer/analysts, software developers, computer operators, or network specialists in business, industry, and government organizations.

NEW!

Businesses are straining to find experts who can protect their data, computers and networks from an array of threats.

To help meet that need, The University of Akron is offering a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems with a focus in cybersecurity.

We were the first public university in Ohio to offer a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems with a focus in cybersecurity. Officially launched in Fall 2017, it is among the first cybersecurity degree tracks in the U.S. to include courses in applied cryptography (the science of encrypting messages), which are typically offered at the graduate level.

Cracking the code of college: Cybersecurity student rewrites and unlocks himself at UA

“Hackers” — those who delight in solving technological problems — spend a lot of time looking at computer code, often long repeating strings of 1s and 0s.

“Another number” is what Spencer Csaky, a self-described “hacker” (not to be confused with a cyber criminal), feared he would be if he enrolled at The University of Akron: one anonymous face among more than 20,000 students, streaming through campus like lines of impersonal code.

ACCREDITATION

We are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, which means the Computer Information Systems degree programs have passed a rigorous accreditation process modeled after the Baldridge National Quality Program. Standards include quality student learning, continuous improvement, innovation, and scholarship.